So few minorities can pass the Chicago police department entrance exam that the only option the city can see is dropping the exam altogether. If this happens, Chicago will be the only major city to not have one. How will eliminating the bar help keep the city and its citizens safer? It won't. But it is the politically correct thing to do. I can't help but envision Chicago's police force someday becoming much like the force in en-domed Chester's Mill in Stephen King's latest novel Under the Dome.
Dropping the exam would bolster minority hiring and avert legal battles, according to one source, while others confirm that the exam could be scrapped to open the process to as many people as possible.However, the lack of an exam would make Chicago the lone major city without one, and experts contend that the exam is integral to eliminating unqualified applicants.
The CPD has tried in recent years to boost minority hiring by offering the police exam online and turning to minority clergy to help in the recruitment effort.
But those efforts have met with frustration. Despite seeing an increase in the number of minority applicants in 2006, the last year the exam was offered, the online component was never launched.
Keep in mind, this is a result of Chicago's failing public schools. When the system pushes through kids who haven't learned even the most basic skills, it results in fewer qualified candidates for the police force.
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Isnt this Barrys stomping g... (Below threshold)1. Posted by 914 | January 6, 2010 2:16 PM | Score: 9 (11 votes cast)
Isnt this Barrys stomping ground? I thought the WON solved all crime and there were unicorns on every corner singing Kumbaya and passing out cherry kool-aid to all passerby?
Affirmative action is the way to go! Just look at the fine job Barry is doing!
1. Posted by 914 | January 6, 2010 2:16 PM |
Score: 9 (11 votes cast)
Posted on January 6, 2010 14:16
2. Posted by Falze | January 6, 2010 2:22 PM | Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Boy, the reasons not to visit that city just keep piling up, don't they?
2. Posted by Falze | January 6, 2010 2:22 PM |
Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Posted on January 6, 2010 14:22
3. Posted by Hermie | January 6, 2010 2:25 PM | Score: 11 (13 votes cast)
Obama spent $100 million of Annenberg Challenge money to improve Chicago schools. Grades still kept failing while Obama cronies and other insiders made off with the cash.
Think of what he'll do with healthcare.
BTW, it would make me uneasy to need to depend on a Chicago cop who couldn't pass simple English or could read the laws they are supposed to enforce.
3. Posted by Hermie | January 6, 2010 2:25 PM |
Score: 11 (13 votes cast)
Posted on January 6, 2010 14:25
4. Posted by GarandFan | January 6, 2010 2:40 PM | Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Hope the 'intellectual elite' have set aside a significant amount of money for the lawsuits that will follow. Wasn't it several years ago, during Billy Bob's reign that Chicago hired cops under some stupid 'affirmative action' program? Two ended up shooting one another at beginning of shift after getting into an argument over who was going to drive.
4. Posted by GarandFan | January 6, 2010 2:40 PM |
Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Posted on January 6, 2010 14:40
5. Posted by SillyPuddy | January 6, 2010 3:45 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
What an utterly stupid idea, how about just hire those that are qualified, trying to find the right mix for a rainbow is stupid as sh1t.
5. Posted by SillyPuddy | January 6, 2010 3:45 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on January 6, 2010 15:45
6. Posted by BluesHarper | January 6, 2010 3:57 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
"Two ended up shooting one another"
No that was the NBA I think.
6. Posted by BluesHarper | January 6, 2010 3:57 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on January 6, 2010 15:57
7. Posted by Falze | January 6, 2010 4:21 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Defense attorneys are probably rubbing their hands with glee...
or maybe not. Hard to charge a lot when it will be so easy to get people off.
'Officer, did you follow all proper, written procedures when detaining the defendent?'
'Proce-what?'
'Uh, ok...did you fill out this report?'
'Yeah, well, maybe I had some help with the big words.'
7. Posted by Falze | January 6, 2010 4:21 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on January 6, 2010 16:21
8. Posted by mpw280 | January 6, 2010 5:30 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Might as well take their guns, as they can't hit what they aim at (if they just don't spray and pray). The solution is easy, let the people carry guns and station the cops at the donut shop.
mpw
8. Posted by mpw280 | January 6, 2010 5:30 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on January 6, 2010 17:30
9. Posted by jim m | January 6, 2010 6:16 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
"how about just hire those that are qualified,"
Well that's the trick isn't it? The problem s even with the test the CPD is an absolute disaster. They have a remarkable reputation for brutality. There have been several highly publicized incidents of CPD officers assaulting people (in one instance a female bartender was severely beaten because she decided a drunken off-duty cop had had enough, so he beat her to a pulp in front of at least a half dozen other officers, who proceeded to cover the incident up)
The CPD is full of worthless unionized thugs. The primary reason all of Illinois death row inmates had their sentences commuted to Life (apart from the Governor trying to get off on a corruption charge) was that the CPD had tortured so many of these men into confessing, you couldn't be certain that many of them were really guilty.
The whole test thing is beside the point. They need to clean up the department and get rid of the thugs.
Not holding my breath for that.
9. Posted by jim m | January 6, 2010 6:16 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on January 6, 2010 18:16
10. Posted by GarandFan | January 6, 2010 6:28 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
This is going to work out as well as when Tom Daschle said we need to federalize the airport security people in order to "professionalize" them.
10. Posted by GarandFan | January 6, 2010 6:28 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on January 6, 2010 18:28
11. Posted by ODA315 | January 6, 2010 6:43 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Could be fodder for a new Police Academy sequel.
Or better yet "Chi-town 911"
11. Posted by ODA315 | January 6, 2010 6:43 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on January 6, 2010 18:43
12. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | January 6, 2010 7:47 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Philadelphia, PA used to have a policy to accept people on a percentage basis based on the total pool of applicants, by race.
If 10% of the applicants were lilliputian, 10% of the accepted must be lilliputians, and so on. But if this meant that there say 30 lilliputian slots, but only 25 out of a hundred passed the exams, they took the next "best" 5 who failed, even if there were other applicants of other ethnic backgrounds with well above passing scores.
After some very high profile police incompetance and misbehaivor cases came to light and the public became aware of the policy (in the early to mid 90s, IIRc), it was altered. But there are still holdovers in the city that were hired this way, but union membership and city politics have protected from being drummed out. Luckily most are pushing papers or enforcing litter laws now.
12. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | January 6, 2010 7:47 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on January 6, 2010 19:47
13. Posted by bobdog | January 6, 2010 9:22 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
As I recall, the dropout rate in the Chicago Public Skool Sistem is over 50%.
That's where half my property taxes go. The other half goes into La Machine.
13. Posted by bobdog | January 6, 2010 9:22 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on January 6, 2010 21:22
14. Posted by ad | January 6, 2010 9:56 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
hahahaha...sorry folks, the jokes on all the rest of you now too! the former ceo of the Chicago Public School system, Arne Duncan, is now your US secretary of education!
14. Posted by ad | January 6, 2010 9:56 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on January 6, 2010 21:56
15. Posted by Flu-Bird | January 6, 2010 11:05 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
And the citizens of chicaga seriously need to dump RICHARD DAILEY and his goon squads right on their nads
15. Posted by Flu-Bird | January 6, 2010 11:05 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on January 6, 2010 23:05
16. Posted by 914 | January 6, 2010 11:58 PM | Score: 4 (6 votes cast)
"As I recall, the dropout rate in the Chicago Public Skool Sistem is over 50%."
That's "Pubblik Skool Sistern", if were going to quote accurately..
16. Posted by 914 | January 6, 2010 11:58 PM |
Score: 4 (6 votes cast)
Posted on January 6, 2010 23:58
17. Posted by SillyPuddy | January 7, 2010 1:55 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"ceo of the Chicago Public School system, Arne Duncan, is now your US secretary of education! "
----
I'd forgotten that. LOL
17. Posted by SillyPuddy | January 7, 2010 1:55 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on January 7, 2010 01:55
18. Posted by Wayne | January 7, 2010 9:54 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Same PC crap. If a PC group can't meet the requirements, lower or do away with the standards. It happened in Army Airborne School a long time ago when most women couldn't meet the physical and\or training requirements.
18. Posted by Wayne | January 7, 2010 9:54 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on January 7, 2010 09:54
19. Posted by drjohn | January 7, 2010 11:57 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I hear the pilots' union is considering doing the same thing.
19. Posted by drjohn | January 7, 2010 11:57 AM |
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Posted on January 7, 2010 11:57
20. Posted by Heather | January 7, 2010 3:18 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Note to self: Stay out of Chicago!
20. Posted by Heather | January 7, 2010 3:18 PM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on January 7, 2010 15:18